Overshoe-retainer.



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OVERSI-IOERETAIN Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 23, 1915.

Application filed November 24, 1913. Serial No. 802,686.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN J. AxINs, a citizen of the United States of America, and resident of Moundsville, county 01"? Marshall, and State of West Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Overshoe-Retainers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to overshoe retainers, and it has for its primary object to provide a simple, inexpensive, eflicient and conveniently applicable device for retaining overshoes in place upon a shoe.

A further object is to provide a novel device of the character mentioned which is wholly separate both from the shoe and the overshoe and which in no way mars or injures either the shoe or the overshoe. And a still further object is to structurally improve that type of overshoe holders disclosed in my prior Patent No. 1,057,108, dated March 25, 1913.

The invention consists in the construction, arrangement and combinations of parts which will hereinafter be fully described, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is an edge View of the device applied, the overshoe being shown in longitudinal section; Fig. 2 is an elevation ofthe same, the overshoe being shown in transverse section; Fig. 3 is a partial longitudinal section of the same, taken on the line 3.-3, Fig. 2; Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of the invention, detached; and Fig. 5 is a section on the line 5 5, Fig.2.

In said drawings, 1 indicates a substantially upright strip, preferably of flexible sheet steel, which constitutes the body portion of the device and which is preferably curved to fit more or less snugly against the rearmost portion of a shoe-counter 2. Formed at the lower end of said strip is an inwardly directed lip or flange 3 which is adapted to seat in the ordinary groove 4 located between the counter 2 and the heel 5 of the shoe, said lip or flange having its terminal edge curved slightly, as shown in Fig. 5, to correspond substantially with the usual curvatureof the portion of the shoe One or more notches, as 6, may be provided in said flange for allowing the lower end of the device to be bent slightly to increase or lessen the curvature without buckling or rupturing said flange.

Said strip has its upper end bent or curved outward and downward to form a loop, designated generally by the numeral 7, the return member of which has a pair of longitudinally directed slits 8 extending to the end thereof, forming a pair of downwardly di rected arms 9 and a tongue 10 located intermediate said arms. The extremities of said arms 9 are coiled back to form oppositely disposed eyes in which the opposite ends of a pin or pintle 11 are mounted. Pivoted on said pin or pintle intermediate said eyes and in a position overlying said tongue 10 is a cam 12 having integral therewith a lever 12 whereby the same may be rotated to and from the position indicated in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, wherein the cam exerts upon the tongue an inwardly directed force which re sults in that portion of the overshoe 13 rebetween said tongue 10 and the body portion 1. To'facilitate the holding of the over shoe thus gripped, the inner face of the tongue may be notched, milled, or otherwise roughened, as shown at 141 in Fig. 3.

To apply the device, it is held in place against the shoe, with the lip or flange 3 seated in the groove 4:, until the overshoe has been drawn up over a portion of the body thereof, whereupon the overshoe itself will act to maintain it in position. As is obvious, chance withdrawal of the overshoe is effectually prevented, the device being stationarily seated with respect to the shoe, and the overshoe being firmly gripped thereby.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. An overshoe retainer comprising a metal strip adapted to fit against. the counter of a shoe above the heel, an inturned lip formed on said strip for seating in the groove between the heel and the counter, said strip having its upper end bent to form a loop, the return member of said loop having two substantially parallel slits therein forming a pair of arms and an intermediate tongue, and means mounted in said arms for depressing said tongue into gripping engagement with an overshoe.

An overshoe retainer comprising a metal strip adapted to fit against the counter of a shoe above the heel, an inturned lip formed on said strip for seating in the groove between the heel and the counter, said strip having its upper end bent to form ceived within the loop 7 being firmly gripped a loop, the return member of said loop having two substantially parallel slits therein forming a pair of arms and an intermediate tongue, 3.116.;2L cam pivotally supported by said arms and adapted to depress said tongue into gripping engagement with an overshoe.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for In testimony whereof, aiiix my signature 1n presence of two subscribing Witnesses. EDWIN J. AKINS.

Witnesses:

H. E. DUNLAP, -L. D. MoRRIs.

five cents each, by addressing the 1 Commissioner of P altnts, 7 Washington, D. G. 

